Councillor Ann McLachlan introduced a report by the Head of Legal and Member Services that recommended draft dates for the Council, the Cabinet and Committee meetings (“Council meetings”) for the Municipal Year 2015/2016.  The proposed draft calendar was appended to the report as Appendix 1.  The report also described various issues that had been taken into account when the draft Calendar of Meetings had been drawn up.

A list of other meetings that did not constitute meetings of the Council and therefore did not require inclusion in the Calendar was appended to the report as Appendix 2.  Notification of these other meetings was provided to enable Members to manage their diaries. 

Councillor Ann McLachlan drew attention to the four Policy and Performance Committee meetings scheduled for April 2016 and proposed that the Council be recommended to agree that they be held in March 2016 instead.  She also reminded Members that traditionally the Council had agreed its Corporate Plan at its meeting held in November/December and proposed that the Council be recommended to do this in July 2016 instead and that as soon as possible in the New Municipal Year the Council be recommended to set its Corporate Priorities.

RESOLVED: That the Cabinet recommends to Council that:

(1)  the draft Calendar of Meetings for the 2015/16 Municipal Year set out in Appendix 1 to the report be amended as proposed by Councillor Ann McLachlan above and approved, and unless amended at the meeting of Council on 16 March, 2015, be confirmed as the Calendar of Meetings for the Municipal Year 2015/16;

(2)  the other meetings detailed in Appendix 2 to the report be noted and Members be requested to diarise them as appropriate; and

(3)  any proposed amendments to the Calendar of Meetings and Appendix 2 to the report be submitted to the Head of Legal and Member Services by 10am on Friday, 13 February 2015.